How many votes in a typical fest?

[Dood]

OMG! I am a member of dvxuser.com for about 3 - 5 months (visiting it every day, every hour, and reading almost every post) and didn't want to post any comments because I'm a complete beginner (and I'm using the stupidest nickname because I thought this site is just like every other).
But, now I just have to write my first post. I know it is in the wrong topic, but I just want to thank sfoster (Shane?) because I decided to enter the TimeFest after reading that he'll shoot his film on a cell phone. I'm still not sure if I'll be able to shoot my film, but I'm doing my best to get it done.

And I just want to say that to me, the prize is not important at all. Having the film seen by dvxusers is the best we can get. So, thank you all for great encouragement and inspiration to people like me and to others.

 

[staticrevenger]

haha! cool dood!. cant wait to see what you come up with.

 

[Michael Anthony Horrigan]

I am still interested in how many people voted during the last fests

And I also think that it is a shame to vote for your own entry. But it seems that this is how the world works if money/prizes are involved.

Agreed. Can we get an estimation on how many votes were registered for the last Fest?

 

[Barry_Green]

Agreed, voting for your own film is ... well, it just seems kind of low class. You should vote for the very best film. If you're voting for your own film because you want to win a prize, that's selfish and anti-community.

 

[Michael Anthony Horrigan]

Barry, can we get a ballpark figure for the voting?

Thanks,

Mike

 

[Jason Ramsey]

873,063 :evil:

 

[Michael Anthony Horrigan]

873,063 :evil:

Is there a reason why you guys aren't answering this??

:huh:

100, 200, 500?

 

[Jason Ramsey]

ok.... ballpark.... between 1-100,000

A couple hundred

 

[Michael Anthony Horrigan]

ok.... ballpark.... between 1-100,000

A couple hundred

Couple hundred! Cool. More than I thought actually. Probably only going to get larger as time goes by. :thumbsup:

Thanks for the answer, Jason.

Cheers,

Mike

 

[Gohanto]

The way of voting we have currently is much better than my school's "audience award". Extremely minimal advertisement and the site was designed such that you could refresh the page and vote unlimited number of times. 11 films, 200 showed up to the awards, and the winner had votes in the thousands...

The only format I really think has the potential to be unfair is where you give every film a 1-5 rating. That was part of my school's system and it really is challenging to give that kind of rating to every film and be equally fair on every film.

Personally I'm a big fan of the top 3 voting, but I can understand why others might not like it.

 

[jasonthewho]

I would honestly prefer that voting for yourself was against the rules. Why should ethical people be at a disadvantage to the unethical ones? Of course, people will always find a way to cheat at any system created. Maybe I'm just being cynical.

 

[Zim]

If a person was running for a government office should they vote for the other guy?

If your in a movie that is up for movie of the year do you vote for the other movie?

What about a person who works on a film with other people. They all work hard to make a good fest film and maybe win. So you should vote for something else?

I think it is a personal choice and nothing really wrong with it. I didn't vote for mine. it wasn't even close to some of the other films. Had I made some of the other films I might have voted for it. Why vote against your actors or crew if they deserve it?